Other Medical Technologists and Technicians
Job description
Pharmacy Technical Assistants assist Pharmacists in their duties.
Dietary Technicians assist dieticians and nutritionists in food service operations.
Ocularists design, manufacture, and fit ocular prostheses.
Prosthetics and Orthotics Technologists and Technicians make, fit, and repair prosthetic and orthotic devices.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
Main tasks
Pharmacy Technical Assistants
- Assist pharmacists with drug inventory and records.
- Verify the accuracy of information recorded on prescriptions.
- Enter customer information into databases.
- Prepare medications and mix oral solutions, ointments, and creams.
- Produce invoices for insurance.
- Assist with scheduling and workflow planning as required.
Dietary Technicians
- Assist dieticians or nutritionists in planning and supervising food service operations.
- Assist in the planning of menus and diets.
- Participate in the supervision of staff that prepares and serves food.
- Help customers complete their menu.
- Collaborate in research on food, nutrition, and food service systems.
Ocularists
- Design, manufacture, clean, repair, and fit prosthetic eyes and implants.
- Paint irises and pupils on prosthetic eyes.
- Advise customers.
- Repair and maintain manufacturing and laboratory equipment.
- Consult ophthalmologists regarding the insertion of ocular prostheses.
Prosthetists, Orthotists, and Prosthetics and Orthotics Technologists and Technicians.
- Design, manufacture, repair, modify, and adjust prosthetic and orthopaedic devices.
- Interpret doctor’s orders.
- Examine and measure clients to develop sketches of devices.
- Make and modify plaster casts of the area to be fitted with a prosthesis or orthotic.
- Teach clients how to use and maintain the prosthesis or orthosis.
- Supervise and direct the activities of other workers in the field.
Advancement and mobility
- Two years of experience and successful completion of the Canadian Board for Certification of Prosthetists and Orthotists certification exams allow Prosthetics and Orthotics Technicians to become Certified Prosthetists and Orthotists.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2020 to 2022.- Minimum
- $15.25
- Median
- $19.30
- Maximum
- $27.50
Job prospects for 2022-2026
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Job prospects for 2022-2026
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2021
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 88.1% Female
- 11.9% Male
- 88.1% Female
- 11.9% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
-
NAICS 44, 4572% of jobs
-
NAICS 621, 622, 62323% of jobs
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NAICS 3392% of jobs
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NAICS 324, 3251% of jobs
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NAICS 410% of jobs
-
Others2% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 44, 4572% of jobs
-
NAICS 621, 622, 62323% of jobs
-
NAICS 3392% of jobs
-
NAICS 324, 3251% of jobs
-
NAICS 410% of jobs
-
Others2% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Secondary
DVS in assistance technique en pharmacie 
Placement rate: 86%
9.1% of graduates pursue further studies
DVS in pharmacy Technical Assistance
Placement rate: 80.5%
7% of graduates pursue further studies
College
DCS in orthèses, prothèses et soins orthopédiques
Placement rate: 90%
6.7% of graduates pursue further studies
DCS in techniques de diététique
Placement rate: 72.7%
22.3% of graduates pursue further studies
Also required
Prosthetists and Orthotists
- Supervised practical training.
- Membership in the Ordre des technologues professionnels du Québec (OTPQ [Quebec Order of Professional Technologists]) for Technologists in this field to practise certain reserved activities.
Sometimes required
- Knowledge of the existing computerized system may be required or an asset
- A Class 5 driver’s licence and a car may be required or an asset.
Ocularists
- A certificate from the National Examining Board of Ocularists is usually required.
Prosthetics and Orthotics Technicians
- Membership in the Association des orthésistes et prothésistes du Québec (AOPQ) may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Quality control analysis
- Critical thought
- Reading comprehension
- Troubleshooting
- Oral expression
- Social perception
- Monitoring operations
- Solving complex problems
- Information processing
- Result evaluation
- Judgment and decision-making
- Service oriented
- Active learning
- Coordination
- Teaching
- Equipment maintenance
- Written expression
- Time management
- Repair
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Awareness of issues
- Near vision
- Verbal skills
- Deductive reasoning
- Hand-arm stability
- Visualization
- Digital dexterity
- Information organization
- Memorization
- Speech clarity
- Manual dexterity
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Limb coordination
- Control accuracy
- Written comprehension
- Selective attention
- Classification
- Written expression
- Core strength
- Originality
- Depth perception
- Colour perception and distinction
- Hearing sensitivity
Knowledge and attributes
- Knowledge of the French language
- Autonomy
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Capacity to work in a team
- Versatility
- Attention to detail
- Capacity to be discrete
- Vitality
- Learning speed
- Knowledge of medicine or dentistry
Interests
- Assist and advise
- Collect, verify, sort, and classify data or information
- Conduct tests and trials, control processes
- Assist or care for people
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Artistic
- People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Official name of the NOC 3219
Other medical technologists and technicians (except dental health)
Job titles
- Orthotist-prosthetist
- Pharmacy technical assistant
- Certified orthotist (co)
- Dietary technician
- Prosthetist assistant
- Surgical fitter
- Surgical appliance fitter
- Ocularist apprentice
- Orthopedic appliance assembler
- Prosthetic assistant
- Certified pedorthist (c ped)
- Pedorthist
- Orthotic corset maker
- Artificial limb maker
- Artificial eye maker
- Brace maker
- Artificial limb finisher
- Orthopedic mechanic
- Aeromedical instructor
- Artificial limb assembler
- Ocularist
- Orthotist
- Prosthetist
- Certified prosthetist
- Prosthetist-orthotist
- Certified prosthetist-orthotist (cpo)
- Ocularist technician
- Registered orthotic technician (r.t.o.)
- Orthotic technician
- Registered prosthetic and orthotic technician (r.t.p.o.)
- Registered prosthetic technician (r.t.p.)
- Prosthetic technician
- Prosthetic-orthotic technician
- Food and nutrition technician - dietetics
- Kidney dialysis technician
- Hemodialysis technician
- Aviation medicine technician
- Pharmacy technician
- Kidney dialysis technologist
- Dietary technologist
- Hemodialysis technologist
Skill type
Health
Last update: April 28, 2023
